Birthweight and blood pressure among children in Harare, Zimbabwe

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Woelk, Godfrey ^a   Emanuel, Irvin ^a   Weiss, Noel S ^a   Psaty, Bruce M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Adult health; Africa; Blood pressure; Intrauterine growth indices

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031656480     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.79.2.F119     Document Type: Article

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